Samsung’s latest flagship is here. Choosing your next phone is often a complicated process, and while the Galaxy S5 is full of shiny newness and a fun new UI to explore it might not be the phone for you.

How do you determine what your next phone is going to be? Do you rely on what the guy in the store has to say? Do you look at which phone gets the best reviews? Do you rely on side-by-side comparisons, benchmarks, or photography contests to choose which phone will be your next? Probably not, but either way there’s a good chance you do just a little bit of homework before shelling out for your next smartphone. If you’re hung up on the Galaxy S5 as your potential new phone, there’s a few things you should keep in mind.

You might be happier with a Galaxy Note instead

With the display on the Galaxy S line increasing in size with each version, there’s not much of difference now between the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy S5. In fact, the original Galaxy Note only had a 5.3-inch screen, though that has now grown a bit as well. The Galaxy Note line has a well-documented history of offering a significantly larger battery as well, which might make it even more worthwhile to you.

The Note line is typically updated in the second half of the year, so if the Note 3 isn’t exactly what you want, it might be worth waiting for the update if you don’t need a phone right now. If history is any indicator, it will be more powerful with a larger screen and significantly better battery life than the Galaxy S5. The S Pen stylus is a lot of fun as well, if you’re the type to care about that sort of thing.

Updates are still going to be slow with the S5

Android 4.4 was announced back in November, with the Nexus 5 as the reference device to carry the features made available in that version into the world. The same week that Samsung announced the Galaxy S5 in Barcelona is the same week that some versions of the Galaxy S4 started getting updates to this most recent version of Android. This is not a new problem for Samsung, and while they have gotten a little better at it, the Galaxy S line has always struggled with timely updates.

If you’re interested in immediate updates but still want the Samsung Galaxy S5 hardware, it’s possible that if you wait a bit, Google will announce a Google Play Edition Galaxy S5 like they did for the previous version of this line. The Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition is a great phone, and it was updated two weeks after the Nexus 5 was released. You’ll lose Samsung’s software in exchange for the Google Experience user interface, but you may even like that better.

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